Drone Memory Bank - Chrome fanfic

For the attention of: Mr Jones
Subject: Extraction from the memory banks of “special” service drone 314159

Below is a sample of what the above named drone was carrying in its memory banks. A snapshot of the drone has since been placed in the secure server, and the drone has been returned to factory settings. As yet, we have not worked out a reason why this drone “chose” to keep this recording, which it seems to have picked up from an abandoned mobile phone. The drones did their job and erased all evidence of these non-person terrorists, but this drone kept data in memory. Sample follows:

Is it working? Testing, testings? This is Barry Cooper, chip id 09112010172859. These are my last words.

They just appeared out of nowhere. Just like the forks. I don’t know if anyone will ever see this. I don’t know if anyone will ever know I existed. Everyone else is dead or dying. I’m dying too. Speaking my final words into an ancient mobile. Thank whatever’s up there, apart from the SOL, that it has a record function. I’d be phoning out, but network is down. Everything’s down. We’re screwed. I’m hiding in one of the warehouses. I don’t care about making this little noise. They’ll find me. I’m fucked.

They came out of nowhere. Ping! Zap! Straight into existence. And they were tooled up for slaughter. Even our best shots bounced off. Maybe if we’d had time we could have mounted one of the big guns... What does it matter any more? Our gang is over. Our dream of living independently from Corp control is over. It dies with us.

We did take one of the bots. If they even were bots. Someone chucked a ‘nade straight at one. Lodged right in it. Didn’t do us any good. It blew up into a shower of forks. Forks everywhere. Forks impaling all of us. Forks of death.

Everyone I know, knew, is dead or dying. Everyone who knows me is dying.

Is that? It is...

COME ON YOU BASTARD! SHOOT ME AND HAVE IT OVER WI...



Internal Memo

For the attention of: Mr Jones
Subject: RE: 314159

I have gone through said drone’s snapshot. I can not find a reason for it logging this recording. Further to removing records of unpersons I have authorised this snapshot be securely wiped. I have called 314159 in for hardware testing. It is possible, but unlikely that the error lies in there. Continue monitoring the drones for abnormal behaviour. Should another go the same way then bring it offline and return it to my office immediately. My office shall make the snapshots and dissections.